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Attitudes on altitude : pioneers of medical research in Colorado's high mountains / edited by John T. Reeves and Robert F. Grover.
Van Pelt Library QP82.2.A4 A88 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Altitude, Influence of--Research--Colorado--History.
- Altitude, Influence of.
- Mountain sickness--Research--Colorado--History.
- Mountain sickness.
- Altitude Sickness.
- Research.
- History.
- Colorado.
- Altitude Sickness--veterinary.
- Research--history.
- Physicians.
- Veterinarians.
- Altitude.
- Atmospheric Pressure.
- Medical Subjects:
- Altitude Sickness.
- Colorado.
- Altitude Sickness--veterinary.
- Research--history.
- Physicians.
- Veterinarians.
- Altitude.
- Atmospheric Pressure.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, [2001]
- Contents:
- Failing hearts at high altitude: "brisket" disease in cattle teaches humans a medical lesson
- A high point in human breathing: John Scott Haldane of Oxford on Pikes Peak
- Major breathing in miners: Mabel Purefoy FitzGerald, an intrepid scientist visits Colorado's high mines
- An affair of the heart: the Grollmans and cardiac output on Pikes Peak
- High cycling: Bruce Dill exercises Harvard men at the Leadville fish hatchery
- Small babies among big mountains: John Lichty solves a Colorado mystery in Leadville
- Wet lungs at high altitude: an Andean problem is found in the Colorado Rockies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0870816454
- OCLC:
- 46959961
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